[issue44485] TKinter docs page does not provide actual documentation

2021-06-22 Thread Zachary Ware
Zachary Ware added the comment: I'm closing this as a duplicate of bpo-42560 (and probably several others). Chris: in short, we know the Tkinter docs are incomplete and we welcome improvements to them, but it costs just as much to say "I don't have the time to spend on this" as it does to sa

[issue44485] TKinter docs page does not provide actual documentation

2021-06-22 Thread E. Paine
E. Paine added the comment: > full, complete, useful documentation of everything Please see msg384022 on why I'm personally against such changes. I was working on 'translating' the Tk man pages into something (hopefully) understandable by tkinter users (as reference documentation), however l

[issue44485] TKinter docs page does not provide actual documentation

2021-06-22 Thread Chris Trent
Chris Trent added the comment: To put it bluntly, having me submit patches to that section of the docs is just about the last thing you want. I know precious little about TKinter, which is precisely why I'm calling for something more than a half-assed tutorial. Regarding using the TCL/TK doc

[issue44485] TKinter docs page does not provide actual documentation

2021-06-22 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Steven D'Aprano added the comment: Are you referring to this? https://docs.python.org/3/library/tkinter.html I acknowledge that there are legitimate criticism of the tkinter docs, and its weaknesses, but you overstate your case. - Tutorials are documentation, they just aren't *reference* do

[issue44485] TKinter docs page does not provide actual documentation

2021-06-22 Thread Chris Trent
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[issue44485] TKinter docs page does not provide actual documentation

2021-06-22 Thread Chris Trent
New submission from Chris Trent : The documentation pages for the tkinter module are not actually documentation. They are tutorials, which belong on the wiki. "Documentation" is not documentation if it does not provide at bare minimum a structured list of all names exposed by the module's pub